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Rh ornament on the legs; this is of stout metal and, in place of a feloe, has a knob, from which four serpent-like spokes diverge to the outer circle. (See woodcut, Fig. XIII.) One portion of a pair of clasps, resembling No. 4, plate 12, "Saxon Obsequies." 141 beads lay about the neck; eighty of these are of blue glass, one of jet, four of amber, the rest of differently coloured vitrified paste. The cranium was too much perished to be removed.

No. 73.—4 feet 6 inches deep. A small glass vessel lay by the head; it was broken by the pick, but has been almost entirely restored. It is of thin greenish glass, and exactly similar to one found at Dinton, fig. 5, plate 16, Douglas's "Nenia." It measures 5$3⁄4$ inches long, 2$3⁄4$ inches in diameter at top, tapering to $3⁄4$ of an inch at bottom, being funnel-shaped. The glass is ornamented with slender spiral rings, or threads of glass. The base is chipped irregularly, and it is possible that it may originally have terminated in a small flat foot. A large and entire cypræa, a sea shell, also lay by the head.

February 4. Nos. 74, 75.—2 feet 6 inches deep. No reliques found with these deposits; both the skeletons much decayed.

No. 76.—3 feet 6 inches deep. A small situla placed by the head; it fell to pieces when cleared from the earth. Two circular bronze fibulæ were found, one on each shoulder. These are scyphate, of strong metal, chased and gilt inside, resembling Nos. 2 and 3, plate 5, "Fairford Graves," and those from Ashendon, Bucks, (Journal of British Archæological Association, vol. iii. p. 346). They are both in good state, and much gilding remains on one. These, with the